Compare Paragraphs
This page compares two reports at the paragraph level. The column on the left shows the first report in its entirety, and the column in the middle identifies paragraphs from the second report with significant matching content. The column on the right highlights any differences between the two matching paragraphs: pink shows differences in the first report and purple in the second report. The Match percentage underneath each comparison row in this column shows the percentage of similarity between the two paragraphs.
Original paragraph in
Wanganui Herald - Tuesday, August 20, 1895
Wanganui Herald - Tuesday, August 20, 1895
Most similar paragraph from
Sydney Evening News - Wednesday, September 4, 1895
Sydney Evening News - Wednesday, September 4, 1895
Difference
Oscar Wilde, the æsthete who is not doing "time" at Pentonville, has been taken off the treadmill and put to picking oakum, with making
matches to follow. The doctors absolutely refused his being continued on the mill. He is in good health. Recently he asked a friend to send him St.
Augustine's works, and some historical books. His plays are about to make their reappearance on the English stage. The Grand Theatre announced the
production of "The Ideal Husband," according to a London despatch of June 30th, and prints Wilde's name as the author in large letters on the bill.
Lord Alfred has bought and furnished in a most luxurious manner a bijou residance, not far from Sorrento, Italy. He has openly declared
that his avowed object is to await the release of Oscar Wilde, when he will at once transport him to the Italian coast. Young Douglas has written a sonnet
which he told a French journalist would be the first piece of reading Oscar Wilde would have from the outside world, and until then no one would be
permitted to see the manuscript.
A dispatch from London published in the "San Francisco Chronicle" says: Lord Alfred Douglas has bought and furnished in the most luxurious
manner a bijou residence not far from Sorrento. He has openly declared that his avowed object is to await the release of Oscar Wilde, when he will at once
transport him to the Italian coast. Young Douglas has written a sonnet which he told a French journalist would be the first piece of reading Oscar Wilde
would have from the outside world, and until then no one would be permitted to see the manuscript.
There is much speculation as to the translation of "Dorian Gray" into French. It is generally believed to be the work of Alphonso
Daudet, but anyhow it is having an immense sale, and the Darisians are raving over it.